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21st-Century Crusades And Demonizing Islam: Commentary On Inderfuth, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article comments on public discourse transmitted through Western-financed mass media that attempts to demonize variants of Islam--e.g., that of the Taliban.

Nexus, Fall 2001, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Literary Careers: Breaks And Stalls, W. Ray Crozier

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "Literary Careers: Breaks and Stalls," W. Ray Crozier argues that biographical evidence points to considerable individual variation in writers' output over the life span even when allowance is made for longevity and length of writing career. This issue has been neglected by psychological accounts of creativity. Crozier outlines a theoretical framework for understanding variation in terms of an "artistic career." This is conceptualised as a sequence of projects, the success of which are influenced by intra-project factors such as the rewardingness and difficulties of literary projects and extra-project factors such as work pressures, poverty, and competing demands …

Bibliography Of Contextual (Systemic And Empirical) Approaches In The Study Of Literature And Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Introduction To Art, Literature, And The Empirical Paradigm, Aldo Nemesio

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

The Perception Of The Song And Its Video Clip, Mariselda Tessarolo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "The Perception of the Song and Its Video Clip," Mariselda Tessarolo examines the relationship between image and music within promotional video clips. Tessarolo observes that images underline the music, where the song marks the rhythm to be given over (and into) the images. As a consequence, emotion prevails over narration within video clips: Affect is their desired effect. The Schwichtenberg typology is used to determine the nature of the relation between emotional and perceptual response. Video clips were classified according to the way they enact this relation, and 100 university students provided the responses to be evaluated. …

About Art, Baruch Blich

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, "About Art," Baruch Blich investigates why is art -- and especially modern art -- so difficult to understand? Why do art objects raise questions as to their status? Why scrutinizing art involves semiotics, philosophy of language, linguistics, epistemology, ontology, and even metaphysics? Why art is interpreted by psychoanalysis as well as by behaviorism and psychology of perception? What anthropology and sociology have to do with art and why do we witness art debated in the courtroom concerning copyright issues? In short -- what makes art a crossroad for many and sometimes conflicting disciplines? Is there something in …

A Psychological Outline Of "Yerma's Dream", Antonio Fusco, Rosella Tomassoni

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "A Psychological Outline of 'Yerma's Dream'" Fusco and Tomassoni examine the world of Lorca in his play. Fusco and Tomassoni present an examination of the psychological characteristics of this world, and focus their attention upon a dream of one its female protagonists. Yerma is observed to be a heroine of "sterility" -- or rather, the heroine of an impossibility to love. The heroics of this impossibility is interpreted according to the social constraints made upon women within a male dominated society. These constraints are said to surface symptomatically within her own dream world -- as a heroine …

A Study Of The Effect Of Reception Of Works Of Art Through An Interactive Cd-Rom, László Halász, Károly Hantos, Balázs Faa

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article, "A Study of the Effect of Reception of Works of Art through an Interactive CD-ROM," Halász, Hantos, and Faa collected data on the aesthetic impact of art objects through multimedia. They constructed a CD-ROM out of various images, sounds and text. Items were offered to 135 secondary school subjects in the framework of directed interactive polychrome variations. The effect was studied partly by measuring viewing (reading) times for each item, and partly by semantic differential and attitude scales. The data for viewing time and phases, and of items of the semantic differential and attitude scales were analyzed …

Danny Almonte: Little League Fantasy And Reality In The Age Of The True Freshman, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It has happened. A second birth certificate has turned up and it is the one Little League Honchos are accepting as valid. Danny Almonte is fourteen. Or so it seems today.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Farner, Keith. Field of Dreams – Soccer
• Lord, Joseph. Big Red Cardholders Left Hungry for Snacks
• Corbin, Brett. Garrett Subway Set to Chill
• Dawes, Jennifer. Banner Getting Mixed Reviews
• Welcome to College: It’s Almost Nap Time – Alcohol
• Vandals Stole Honor – International Center Flags
• Loyal, Taylor. Campus Provides Ups, Downs, Pasta
• Dittmeier, Kate. Funding Uncertain for Shuttles Needing Repair
• Brazley, Erin. Student Government Association 25 Members Shorter & $4,200 Richer Than a Year Ago
• Hoang, Mai. Western Joins Forces to Fund Office – Lobbying
• Corbin, Brett. Student Arrested …

Ua12/2/1 Golden Years, Golden Gate, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special football issue of the College Heights Herald. Articles:

• Hightower, Kyle. Coach’s 40^th Season May Be His Most Defining – Jack Harbaugh
• Knox, Malcolm. Defense, The Best in 2000, Packs Speed, Maturity
• Farner, Keith. Lienmen Set to Clear Path
• Compton, Michael. Rushing Still Focus of Offense
• Moore, Michael. Bryan Cross: We Win Football Games with Special Teams
• Hightower, Kyle. Toppers See Lesson in 1998 Letdown
• Tucker, Kyle. Schedule Will Keep Team Looking Over Its Shoulder
• Clark, Ryan. Who’s That Guy? Topper Defensive Back Starting to Make Name – Mel Moffatt
• Tucker, Kyle. Hilltoppers Vow to Ignore Preseason Hype, Expectations

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 7 [77], No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Warren, Brandy. Drinkers to Report Bad News
• Ragan, Jason. Heat, Tempers Rise in Garrett Subway
• Hall, Rex. Disabled Man Files Discrimination Suit – Charles Whaley
• Corbin, Brett. Western Officer Gets FBI Training – Gordon Turner
• Lord, Joseph. Flag Heist Prompts Increased Security – International Center
• We’re Growing (Too Big for Our Britches) – Diddle Arena
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Division I Athletics
• Baize, John. New Problems Meet Old Problems – Construction
• Carlock, Shannon. Printing DUIs Is Bad Business
• Dittmeier, Kate. Chief Public Affairs Officer Leaving for Michigan – …

Football Begins Its Longest Season Ever - Signs Of Opening Football Season, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The first football game of the college season took place on Thursday night and there are a number of other games this weekend. Many colleges and universities are not yet in session and some players will play as many as four or five games before they see the inside of a college classroom. Yes, these are the student athletes of NCAA legend.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hall, Rex. Diddle Arena Raises Concern
• Dawes, Jennifer. Hammering Out the Details – Construction
• Lord, Joseph. Kappa Sigma Fraternity Returning to Hill
• Warren, Brandy. Engineers Finding a New Home
• Hoang, Mai. Plans Underway for Performing Arts Center – Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center
• Arsonists At-Large Be on the Lookout
• Grady, Brian. Editorial Cartoon re: Arsonists
• Cutting Through All the Big Red Hype – Mascots & Logos
• Shepherd, Justin. The Time for Self-Serving Is Now – Restaurant Work
• Hall, Rex. Five Diddle Arena Suites Still Open
• Holm, Hollan. Western Welcomes …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 77, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hall, Rex. Tuition Increase Boosts Faculty & Staff Pay
• Hightower, Kyle. Jack Harbaugh Signs New Contract
• Lord, Joseph. Super Size – McLean Hall
• Warren, Brandy. Two Students Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges – Derek Russell, John Hurley
• Warren, Brandy. Increased Enrollment Brings Excitement, Worries for Western
• If You Want to Learn, Then You Have to Pay – Tuition
• L&B. Editorial Cartoon re: New for 2002, Big Red
• Youngman, Sam. Hate Us? Love Us? Please, Write Us?
• Ragan, Jason. Small Changes Cause Big Complaints
• Hoang, Mai. Western to Negotiate for …

Sport: The Original Reality Tv - More Death On The Overheated Football Fields, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The latest in the "Survivor" series is currently being filmed in Kenya, where locals are amused and confused by the notion that survival in their everyday environment has been turned into a ludicrous game show by Americans. Indeed the reality television craze seems to be hitting new levels of unreality everyday.

Puckett And Winfield Enter Hof - Heat Claims Viking Player (Heat And Football), Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

This weekend would have been a time of great celebration for Minnesota sports fans, but instead it will be bitter sweet. Two of Minnesota's favorite athletes are being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield are much admired and both are richly deserving of the honor.

Ua12/2/1 View Of The Hill, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Welcome to campus issue of the College Heights Herald. Articles:

• Ransdell, Gary. Letter to Students
• Campus Map
• Newcomer Information
• Shepherd, Justin. International Center Brings Worlds Together on the Hill
• Batcheldor, Matt & Kate Corcoran. To Hill & Back – Physical Fitness
• University Services
• Ashford, Tina. Packing for the Hill
• Associated Press Honors Broadcasters
• Steel Bridge Team 26^th – Engineering
• Loyal, Taylor. Freshmen Take on Loneliness but Hill Will Win in the End
• Compton, Michael. Win, Lose or Socialize
• Warren, Brandy. Be Patient: Construction is Here to Stay
• Shepherd, Justin. If You’re Passionate About It, Get Involved
• Local Churches
• Mills, …

Wwjs What Would Jesus Sell (For Sports), Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

In a recent interview Deion Sanders, the guru of Jesus jocks, said that he doesn't see how he could have sports in his life without religion. "They go together like peanut butter and jelly."

Thinness In Women: The Impact Of Female Body Weight On Relationship Satisfaction And Commitment, Wendy Walter Campbell

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current study represents an investigation of the impact of weight change on romantic relationships, and the hypothesized gender difference in the importance assigned to a partner's weight. Participants were 221 undergraduate students (148 women and 73 men) from a medium sized Midwestern University. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions in which their weight in a photo image was increased, decreased or left unchanged. Upon inspecting the image, participants were asked to complete measures of relationship satisfaction and commitment (including among others, items from the Dyadic Adjustment Scale [DAS]), the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale [KMSS], as well …

Origins Of Baseball Revealed - Trying To Speed Up The Game, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The heat and humidity of late July is sending me slouching towards the Dog Days of August. The dread miasma is creeping in from the swamps and the vapors hang in the saturated night air. The tropics of Central Florida drain your energy and create hallucinatory conditions. Some days it's so bad that not a creature is stirring not even The Mouse.

Knight Commission: Another Futile Attempt To Reform College Athletics, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Once again the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has issued a call for reform. As was the case with the Jeremiad Sermons of the 17th Century Puritans, the call for reform has become a ritual whose primary function is to cleanse the sinner so that they might go forth and sin again. Any real prospect of reform and change is as remote in intercollegiate athletics today as it was for the debauched sinners in the Massachusetts of the Mathers. Or as they used to say in rural America, the horse has long since left the barn.

One Of The Great Wimbledon Fortnights, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

To paraphrase Joaquin Andujar, sport can be summarized in just one word, "You never know."

Baseball's All-Star Game: Some History, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Baseball's All-Star Game is coming up Tuesday at Safeco Field in Seattle, one of the newest, and by most accounts one of the most beautiful of the new stadiums: "The House that Junior and A-Rod Built" before they left town.

Standing Against Censorship—Again, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Good afternoon. I'm Alisa Solomon, the executive director of the Center for Lesbian and Cay Studies (CLAGS) at the City University of New York, and I'm glad to be here on behalf of CLAGS to voice our strong objection to Mayor Giuliani's so-called Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission. We at CLAGS are not fooled by the Mayor's disingenuous assertions that this committee is merely a group of concerned citizens exercising their free speech in offering him their advice, for we recognize many of the members as long-time activists in the effort to squelch dissident viewpoints and legislate their own narrow morality. …

Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, Alisa Solomon

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

I’ve just finished teaching an undergraduate Shakespeare class at Baruch College—CUNY to a class of mostly business majors. For many of the students, English is not their first language, so predictably, they had some trouble parsing Shakespeare's text. But they had no difficulty at all understanding what was going on between Patroclus and Achilles in Troilus and Cressida, or, arguably, between Antonio and Sebastian—or Olivia and Viola or Orsino and Cesario—in Twelfth Night. In general, they were not in the slightest surprised to find homoeroticism in the works of the Greatest Writer Ever. (Indeed, critically analyzing Bardolatry was …

Ua11/1 Great Expectations, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter published by WKU Public Affairs regarding Western Kentucky University news and achievements.

Eddie Scissons Syndrome, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over a decade ago Rob Sheinkopf and I examined Eddie Scissons Syndrome and its many manifestations in American society. This piece was published in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, after having been presented at a meeting of the Sport Literature Association in Florence, Oregon. A little over a week ago Rob offered an update of this peculiarity of human folly at the SLA meeting in Johnson City.

Tiger Woods Is God: Check The Website, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Quick, tell me the name of the golfer who won the U.S. Open last week. Now which golfer didn't win? If you are like most casual golf watchers you couldn't name the winner, but you knew that Tiger Woods did not win. My guess is that you could not name either of the players who were in the Monday playoff. And furthermore, like much of the rest of America, you did not watch the final round of the tournament on Sunday, nor the Monday playoff.